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As a certain Frenchman wrote, r > g
I see that someone else also patronizes the Spooner Berry Farms stand!
Let me introduce Mr. Salkover to the exotic foreign city of Detroit.
I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Nice tribute to Chris Evert on ESPN. She was my favorite player growing up, on either the men’s or women’s side of tennis. #usopen
Nate Silver trying too hard to be relevant again.
No disrespect to Osaka, who was solid the entire match, but Gauff didn’t play like she is capable of doing. #usopen
Nothing going right for Gauff now. #usopen
Gauff is really unsettled. Too many unforced errors. She’s pressing too much. #usopen
I’m having a hard time seeing Gauff come back in this match. #usopen
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This. What may look to us now as an obvious pseudoscience was not obvious to those working in it at the time.
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
That was a Fran Tarkenton-esque scramble.
Adams is going for the Walter Mitty vote.
The classics never go out of style.
I had forgotten that Catholics vs. Convicts was on today. #ncaafootball
Seattle’s multiple record-breaking triple-digit temperatures have all been in the last 15 years, and I’ve been here for all of them. You need A/C in Seattle now.
Pavement and other hard surfaces without compensatory green spaces exacerbate urban heat island effects.
I see a killer two-seamer in his future.
Bingo. I don’t care for the sneering from people who get to a foreign country in two hours. Not to mention overlooking the regional diversity of North America.
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
My favorite sentence in the New York Times explainer on Mamdani and socialism.
Bouie has a good point here. We need to be clear-eyed about what we're dealing with and avoid sugarcoating it, but there's a point where "we're doomed" becomes an implicit excuse to do nothing because doing something would be uncomfortable.
Yes.
Besides the cruelty of the act itself, it's maddening how the Trump administration just blatantly lies and that's no longer regarded as a problem. It's just what Trump does and, hey, what can you do, right?
Duh. That’s what I get for not being more careful.
Wait, I’m confused. Isn’t Burning Man like *the* social event for Silicon Valley types to attend? Did something change?
I stopped watching Bosch: Legacy when it used the “protagonist’s daughter is taken by the Bad Guy and he’s on a mission of rescue and revenge” trope.
Next week's road game at Oklahoma will be a major test for Underwood, but he could very well be the real deal.
Oh, sure. I'm not saying that pseudoscience is not a useful concept, but rather trying to unpack one of the rhetorical uses of the the concept.
Griffin + Baudrillard explains a lot about our current political moment in the US and other nations that are facing far-right political pressure.
Sometimes when discussing the historical influence of eugenics, scientific racism, etc., "pseudoscience" gets invoked as a kind of game of no true Scotsman so that we can effectively edit them out of the history of science as not being "real" and therefore trivial.
Arabic coffee!
Fantastic book.
It's older, but Mark Haller's _Eugenics: Hereditarian Attitudes in American Thought_ is still worthwhile.
What? Historically speaking I don't think you'll find any greater instances of criminal madness than those cooked up by fascist movements. Volkisch medicine and science is perfectly in line with fascism.
Pac-Man. There's even a song about it.
Michelle's on the pavement Thinking about the government
I'm rather glad that Michigan "lost out" on DeBoer after Harbaugh left.
It's better to look good than to feel good, you know what I am saying?
always a question of “what science counts to you” but the destruction of the world’s first trans clinic was in 1933 and most of the elimination program borrowed whole cloth from US jim crow pseudoscientific eugenics, so for sure, yeah the literal nazis did RFK shit.
This is just ambiguous enough that I can't tell if Ace disapproves (I hope not) or if he's being snarky.
The transfer portal and NIL. DeBoer can't lock down talent like Saban was able to do.
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There are exceptions, e.g., when certain *products* of science and technology are deemed beneficial for right-wing political goals, and there are "sciencey" intellectual programs like eugenics that get right-wing support, but the general tendency is to view science with suspicion.
Another reason is that the right tends to see science as a meliorist, "liberal" endeavor, that goes against received wisdom and tries to upend a traditional, stable social and cultural order. 2/
Gourevitch is correct that what we're seeing is particuarly extereme, but the US right has long regarded science with a significant amount of distrust. One reason for this is a more general anti-intellectualism in US culture as described by Hofstadter. 1/
Excellent thread here by @dhnexon.bsky.social. The road ahead is going to be a difficult one for anyone who supports genuine democracy in the US.
LOL. #GoBlue
How could I resist!? #histsci
Texas is Number One-ing very poorly right now.
Texas is looking very much like a Not-#1 team in the nation right now. #ncaa #football
I have been Reliably Informed that this is a purity test and the Democrats need a Big Tent.
replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
The Centrists are not poll / focus group driven. They begin with their view of the world and use these tools to claim that this view is correct and unassailable.
You see, Kevin, what you need to do is...
"Only speculation". LOL.
Clearly, Yglesias didn't. But that's his job.
Maybe the National Guard presence shouldn't be there at all?
History, like other humanist disciplines, is "easy", so anyone can do it.
What really annoyed me about this article was the declaration that the historiographical issue being addressed was "solved". It's one thing to say that you're providing a new avenue of research that could be useful, it's another to say that you've definitively "solved" the history.
Numbers, my boy, numbers!
Although the annual migration is not without risks—every year an average of 17.4 Beckys and Kayleighs fall victim to plane engines, wind turbines, or skyscraper windows—most who want to start drinking PSLs as soon as possible claim that the journey remains worth it.
The muted market reaction to The Crazy doesn't tell you much about what will happen. Markets almost *never* react in advance to large but only potential disruptions. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-...
The opposition to anti-Covid policies, especially but not only the economic ones, was not rooted in concern that they would not work. They were rooted in concern that they *would* work, and people's expectations would rise accordingly.
Because American elites benefit from fascism, but they don't benefit from their lessers being insufficiently obsequious.
Ah, I missed that detail.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one who is convinced that RFK, Jr. is on serious gear.
He should be put on trial at The Hague.
Careful with that axe, Eugene.
No comment needed. www.nybooks.com/online/2012/...
Very sad. _American Experience_ is an invaluable resource.
They're intellectuals because of the role they play, which is as important as the content of what they say and write.
Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me?
Enable and plan war crime related activities.
It’s sort of puzzling that accurately describing the fascist state capture we’re experiencing is so often denounced as “doomerism,” but my fave of this genre is being called a doomer for saying we can still fix things if only we take action. Such an odd little performance of denial!
I've been saying that the Trump administration is a simulacrum presidency for some time now.
Soon David Shor will release a memo telling Democrats that the GOP message of “work will set you free” is very popular and one they need to adopt
the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.
Looks like the kind of pelican who'd nod and say, "'sup dude?"
They found LeninRules1917 on Bluesky saying it once, so of course it's representative of every Democrat.
Yeah, people forget that social improvement (however one defines that) is foundational to all of the social sciences. They were never supposed to be "neutral", if that were even possible.
Any contact with the criminal punishment system at all can destroy your life. You don't have to be convicted and imprisoned for that to be the case. Once again, this is something that too few USians pay attention to or know.
The most impactful thing currently happening is the weaponization of law enforcement to target people. It will have the most chilling and long lasting effect. And I said when Ras Baraka was arrested and then LaMonica McIver was indicted that the Rubicon had been crossed. Full on federal fascism.
Still figuring it out!
"If we don't dominate, we're being oppressed".
That’s a good place. Generally, you have to go outside of downtown to find better bakeries.
Case in point for Seattle: Larsen’s.
I’m stealing “talent and expertise of ass hair”.
The political scientist Pippa Norris talked about this in an interview with Ezra Klein. The argument is that cultural politics become more salient when people believe that basic economic concerns have been addressed.
Hahahaha! That's a good one!
Wrens are very feisty.
I do not trust the impulse to defend conservatism’s reputation from the results it has very deliberately and persistently manufactured right before our eyes.
Bingo. It's not the job of liberals, leftists, etc. to rehabilitate conservatism.
Janega points out one of the fundamental problems with "popularism": if 51%+ of the population thinks it's okay, say, to arbitrarily throw people in jail, we are not obligated to enact that policy.
Your daily wisdom from the local labor economist: ALL WORK HAS VALUE. THE COMPENSATION PAID TO DIFFERENT KINDS OF WORK DOES NOT REFLECT UPON A PERSONS VALUE AS A MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY. FOR INSTANCE, CEO’s DESTROY COMMUNITIES AND ARE PAID HANDSOMELY FOR IT.
Unions do more than just improve wages and benefits. They build stronger communities and strengthen democracy. A new report from @epi.org shows that where unions thrive, communities thrive. Imagine what we could achieve if more people had a voice at work. www.epi.org/publication/...